On 15 Apr 2006 08:03:25 -0700, "dingus" wrote:

I am looking for suggestions for economic ways to receive noaa weather
charts on my laptop. the noaa broadcasts are on single side band.

You don't need a modem, you can use your computer's sound hardware if
it has a line input. For software, look for "wxsat". It was mainly
written for satellite use but it has a setting for shortwave
broadcasts. Hint: the shortwave setting is named "FM", because it
refers to the modulation of the video onto the audio rather than the
audio onto the RF.